Claim: The US is a constitutional republic, not a democracy

[Mott the Hoople]

If you're asking am I Desh, the answer is no.

Do you say that the US is not a democracy? Is that because of the collegiate system in presidential elections?

It would be more more accurate to say we are a Constitutional Democratic Republic. We have never been a pure Democracy. Many of our institutions are not Democratic. The Electoral College, the Senate (both State and Federal), our Federal Judiciary, Conggresional apportionment, etc,.

We do use Democratic principles to a great extent just not exclusively.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Democracies which is majority rule is for unions, not the government. The party the majority of Americans vote for has lost 4 elections.

actually that’s 5 elections. Adams, Hayes, Harrison, W, and Trump.

 

[Adolf_Twitler]

Why is it so important for some American conservatives to insist on this claim? As far as I know, the only significant respect in which the US is not a pure democracy is the collegiate system of presidential elections. Is that what this is all about?

If I said that the UK is a monarchy, not a democracy, that would be regarded as very odd, because for a century or more it has been both of those things, and nobody - certainly not conservatives - would claim otherwise. I might add that it has enjoyed freedom from arbitrary rule for much longer. That indeed is not the same thing as democracy, although the terms are often confused.

Any ideas?

What it is, is an excuse to justify Republicans clinging on to the Archaic Electoral process, Gerrymandering, and voter suppression here in America!

It is also an effort to promote the word Republic in the Republican party- and a way to diminish the word Democracy because it looks so much like Democrat!

Republicans hate the term "Democratic Process" because it looks like a plug for the Democrats!

That is why the Republicans are trying to kill all of America's Democratic Processes right now and have no regard or respect for them anymore!

Any questions?

 

[Nordberg]

What it is, is an excuse to justify Republicans clinging on to the Archaic Electoral process, Gerrymandering, and voter suppression here in America!

It is also an effort to promote the word Republic in the Republican party- and a way to diminish the word Democracy because it looks so much like Democrat!

Republicans hate the term "Democratic Process" because it looks like a plug for the Democrats!

That is why the Republicans are trying to kill all of America's Democratic Processes right now and have no regard or respect for them anymore!

Any questions?

they also call us The Democrat party. It is the Democratic Party, and they know better. That has been deliberate the last decade or so.